Kitty Hawks

Kitty Stephen Hawks (born February 11, 1946) is an American interior designer living in New York City and Westchester, New York. She is the daughter of New York socialite Slim Keith and film director Howard Hawks and is married to Larry Lederman, a photographer and retired corporate attorney.[1] She was previously married to Ned Stone Tanen from April 11, 1976, to December 30, 1983.[2]

Kitty Hawks
Born
Kitty Stephen Hawks

(1946-02-11) February 11, 1946
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Smith College
OccupationInterior designer
SpouseLarry Lederman
Parent(s)Howard Hawks
Slim Keith

Career

Hawks graduated from Smith College and attended the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles.[1] After working as an agent for International Creative Management in Los Angeles, she moved to New York City, where she worked as creative director for Perry Ellis[1] and Stendig Furniture before starting her own interior design firm. She was first commissioned in 1988 to decorate an apartment in New York's Hotel des Artistes. Since then her clients have included Tom Brokaw, Candice Bergen, Agnes Gund, Michael Ovitz, Mike Nichols, and Diane Sawyer.[3] She served for over 10 years as a board member of The Design Trust for Public Space and the Municipal Art Society of New York.[4] She has taught residential design at the Parsons School of Interior Design, and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2005.[3][5] Hawks could be seen as unpredictable, as she told Interior Design magazine: “My work isn’t premeditated, it’s very spontaneous.”[6]

Awards
  • Interior Design Hall of Fame 2005[3]

References
  1. Norwich, William (May 11, 1998). "Kitty Hawks Has Good Taste". The New York Observer.
  2. California, U.S., Marriage Index, 1960-1985; California, U.S., Divorce Index, 1966-1984
  3. "Kitty Hawks". Past Inductees. Interior Design. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013.
  4. "Kitty Hawks". Municipal Art Society. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 1, 2013.
  5. "Kitty Hawks". The New School. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012.
  6. Chen, Aric (May 31, 2014). "Kitty Hawks: 2005 Hall of Fame Inductee". Interior Design. Archived from the original on August 7, 2020.


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